The Acquisition Of Word Order

Author : Marit Richardsen Westergaard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255280

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The Acquisition of Word Order by Marit Richardsen Westergaard Pdf

Within a new model of language acquisition, this book discusses verb second (V2) word order in situations where there is variation in the input. While traditional generative accounts consider V2 to be a parameter, this study shows that, in many languages, this word order is dependent on fine distinctions in syntax and information structure. Thus, within a split-CP model of clause structure, a number of "micro-cues" are formulated, taking into account the specific context for V2 vs. non-V2 (clause type, subcategory of the elements involved, etc.). The micro-cues are produced in children s I-language grammars on exposure to the relevant input. Focusing on a dialect of Norwegian, the book shows that children generally produce target-consistent V2 and non-V2 from early on, indicating that they are sensitive to the micro-cues. This includes contexts where word order is dependent on information structure. The children s occasional non-target-consistent behavior is accounted for by economy principles."

Author : Bettelou Los,Pieter de Haan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264848

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Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact by Bettelou Los,Pieter de Haan Pdf

The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social values in the way that phonological variants do. Instead, speakers tend to attach discourse or information-structural functions to any word order variation they encounter in their input, either in the process of first language acquisition or in situations of language or dialect contact. In second language acquisition, fine-tuning information-structural constraints appears to be the last hurdle that has to be overcome by advanced learners. The papers in this volume focus on word order phenomena in the history of English, as well as in related languages like Norwegian and Dutch-based creoles, and in Romance.

Author : Merete Anderssen,Kristine Bentzen,Marit Westergaard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789048192076

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Variation in the Input by Merete Anderssen,Kristine Bentzen,Marit Westergaard Pdf

The topic of variation in language has received considerable attention in the field of general linguistics in recent years. This includes research on linguistic micro-variation that is dependent on fine distinctions in syntax and information structure. However, relatively little work has been done on how this variation is acquired. This book focuses on how different types of variation are expressed in the input and how this is acquired by young children. The collection of papers includes studies of the acquisition of variation in a number of different languages, including English, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Swiss German, Ukrainian, and American Sign Language. Different kinds of linguistic variation are considered, ranging from pure word order variation to optionally doubly filled COMPs and the resolution of scopal ambiguities. In addition, papers in the volume deal with the extreme case of variation found in bilingual acquisition.

Author : Ana Maria Martins,Adriana Cardoso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198747307

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Word Order Change by Ana Maria Martins,Adriana Cardoso Pdf

This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and related phenomena. It draws on data from a wide range of languages including Sanskrit, Tocharian, Portuguese, Irish, Hungarian and Coptic Egyptian.

Author : Wenying Jiang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 9783110216189

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Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language by Wenying Jiang Pdf

"In this book, linguistic achievements of word order studies in Chinese have been applied to Chinese second language acquisition research. By analyzing a great number of word order errors made by learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL), this book has developed a method for describing and explaining Chinese word order errors. With this method, the book has the potential to empower CFL teachers all over the world to teach Chinese in an informed manner, and particularly to teach Chinese word order more effectively and efficiently." --Book Jacket.

Author : Pamela Downing,Michael P. Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229212

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Word Order in Discourse by Pamela Downing,Michael P. Noonan Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.The papers in this volume discuss word order variation in a diverse collection of languages and from a number of perspectives, including experimental and quantitative text based studies. A number of papers address the problem of deciding which order is 'basic' among the alternatives. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in problems of word order variation, and to those interested in discourse syntax.

Author : Ben Ambridge,Elena V. M. Lieven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139500517

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Child Language Acquisition by Ben Ambridge,Elena V. M. Lieven Pdf

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core domains of child language acquisition research (phonology, word-learning, inflectional morphology, syntax and binding) and includes a complete introduction to the two major contrasting theoretical approaches: generativist and constructivist. For each debate, the predictions of the competing accounts are closely and even-handedly evaluated against the empirical data. The result is an evidence-based review of the central issues in language acquisition research that will constitute a valuable resource for students, teachers, course-builders and researchers alike.

Author : Joachim Sabel,Mamoru Saito
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197266

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The Free Word Order Phenomenon by Joachim Sabel,Mamoru Saito Pdf

This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon (scrambling) in a wide range of languages - in particular, German, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied. In the past, the syntax of free word order phenomena has been studied intensively with respect to its A- and A'-movement properties and in connection with its semantic (undoing) effects. The different articles in this volume offer new ways of analyzing free word order under (i) minimalist assumptions, (ii) concerning the typology of scrambling languages, (iii) with respect to the question of how it is acquired by children, (iv) in connection with its relatedness to information structural factors, and (v) with respect to its consequences for a highly elaborated sentence structure of the IP/VP domain. The articles that focus mainly on the emprical aspects of free word order phenomena deal with the properties and proper analysis of rightwards scrambling in Turkish, with the A-/A'-nature and triggers for VSO-VOS alternations in Tongan, as well as with left-branch extractions and NP-Split in Slavic and its consequences for a typology of scrambling languages. The articles that focus on theoretical aspects of scrambling deal with questions concerning the motivatation of a derivation with scrambling in a free word order language, such as whether scrambling has to be analyzed as topicalization or focus movement. Or assuming that scrambling is feature-driven, how the technical details of this analysis are implemented in the grammar to avoid unwarranted derivations, for example, derivations with string-vacuous scrambling. A further important question that is addressed is when scrambling is acquired in the development of the grammar, and what the consequences are for the timing of the acquisition of A- and A'-movement properties. This volume will be most relevant to researchers and advanced students interested in generative syntax, as well as typologists working on German, Japanese, Slavic, Turkish, Dravidian and Austronesian languages. We regret that due to a layout error the title of Miyagawa's article on "EPP and semantically vacuous scrambling" is misrepresented in the printed version of the book. You can download the article with the corrected title here.

Author : John A Hawkins
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483296609

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Word Order Universals by John A Hawkins Pdf

Word Order Universals

Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229052

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Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility by Doris L. Payne Pdf

For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the "basic" order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages. New debate has arisen over varying definitions of "basic," with investigators encountering languages where branding a particular order of grammatical relations as basic yielded no particular insightfulness. This work asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntactic and are to be found in studies of how the mind grammaticizes forms, processes information, and speech act theory considerations of speakers' attempts to get their hearers to build one, rather than another, mental representation of incoming information. Thus three domains must be distinguished in understanding order variation: syntactic, cognitive and pragmatic. The works in this volume explore various aspects of this assertion.

Author : Anna Siewierska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106008033059

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Word Order Rules by Anna Siewierska Pdf

Author : Simin Karimi
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 063123327X

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Word Order and Scrambling by Simin Karimi Pdf

Word Order and Scrambling introduces readers to recent research into the linguistic phenomenon called scrambling and is a valuable contribution to the fields of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics. Introduces readers to recent research into the linguistic phenomenon called scrambling, or free word order. Explores major issues including factors responsible for word order variations, how scrambled constructions are processed, and whether variations are available in early child language development and in second language acquisition. Discusses a number of typologically diverse languages including Hindi, Japanese, and Navajo. Provides enlightening information on different aspects of word order variation and the consequences for our understanding of the nature of human language.

Author : J. Meisel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401128032

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The Acquisition of Verb Placement by J. Meisel Pdf

other aspects of developing grammars. And this is, indeed, what the contributions to this volume do. Parameterization of functional categories may, however, be understood in different ways, even if one shares the dual assumptions that substantive elements (verbs, nouns, etc. ) are present in all grammars and that X-bar principles are part of the grammatical knowledge available to the child prior to language-specific learning processes. From these assumptions it follows that the child should, from early on, be able to construct projections on the basis of these elements. The role of functional categories, however, may still be interpreted differently. One possibility, first suggested by Radford (1986, 1990) and by Guilfoyle and Noonan (1988), is that children must discover which functional categories (FC) need to be implemented in the grammar of the language they are acquiring. Another possibility, first explored by Hyams (1986), is that a specific category is present in developing grammars but that parameter values are set in a way deviating from the target adult grammar, corresponding, however, to options realized in other adult systems. A third option would be that these categories might be specified differently in developing as opposed to mature grammars. All three are explored in the papers collected in this volume. Before outlining the various hypotheses in more detail, however, I would like briefly to sketch the grammatical context in which the following debate is situated. 2.

Author : Robert C. Berwick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262022265

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The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge by Robert C. Berwick Pdf

The computer model. Computation and language acquisition. The acquisition model. Learning phrase structure. Learning transformations. A theory of acquisition. Acquisition complexity. Learning theory: applications. Locality principles and acquisition.

Author : Katharina Irene Boser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924080033826

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The Acquisition of Word Order Knowledge in Early Child German by Katharina Irene Boser Pdf